People are Living in Motels

People are living in motels. Did you know that? Thanks to Mary Rose Mission, I’ve been able to help deliver groceries to individuals and families living in pay-by-the-week motels in Northern Kentucky. The experience is both humbling and horrifying. I had no idea this was happening. Well,...

What Do You Do?

Every day we encounter individuals in need of something: food, shelter, money, jobs, health. A lot of times they approach us, asking for help...what do you do? In his eschatological discourse, Jesus says: “For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you...

Are You Catholic Enough?

By now, almost everyone has seen, or at least heard of, the Time magazine cover asking, “Are You Mom Enough?” Aside from the disturbingly sensational depiction of breastfeeding, the question itself is an intriguing one, and one that gets to the heart of some major social issues in the US. Too...

All These Questions

I remember reading about a time when Mother Teresa, now Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, was asked a peculiar question from a writer. The writer asked her how, among all of these people (the poor who were gathered around her at that time), can she take it slow, dealing with one person at a time, seemingly...

Faithful Citizenship

Last Tuesday, I attended an event hosted by the Archdiocese of Cincinnati to address the topic of Faithful Citizenship. I was a little bit skeptical of how someone would present this topic without seeming to be from one side of the political fence or the other. John Carr, the Executive Director of the...

Opposition to Abortion Does Not Take Away the Sins of the World

We welcome guest blogger Mark P. Shea, author of the new book The Work of Mercy: Being the Hands and Heart of Christ from Servant Books. Let’s get something out of the way right off the bat. Abortion is the single most serious moral issue of our time. Nothing in our civilization equals the gravity of a...

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